Vice President Xi Jinping Monday called for innovation in nurturing and selecting young cadres.

"The training and selecting young cadres is of great importance for the lasting stability of the Party and the state," said Xi at a national panel discussion on the issue.

Xi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, called on Party committees at all levels to explore new ways to ensure the healthy growth of a generation of young cadres.

He said the work of training and selecting of young cadres deserved continuous attention, given the succession of old cadres by the new and their cooperation was an unending process.

He urged Party committees to educate young cadres with Marxist theories to improve their theoretical attainment.

"The education of ideal and conviction is a fundamental task," he said. The young cadres should be guided and helped in fortifying their conviction in socialism with Chinese characteristics.

He also called for Party committees to enhance the education of Party spirit among young cadres and strengthen the cultivation of their morality, stressing the education of loyalty and resisting corruption.

Xi said young cadres should be encouraged to temper themselves at the grass-roots level positions.

"The promising ones should be sent to the places featuring harsh conditions."

(Xinhua News Agency March 31, 2009)